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Can you please tell me:

1) Are you a teacher, administrator, etc?

2) What is in those emails? Why are you attempting to export them?

3) Is this a SCHOOL account, or your personal account such as gmail, yahoo, etc?

This is not an answer, but an information request. I need this information to answer your question. Please reply, so I can answer your question. Thank you in advance.

Thank you for your reply. On this website, I do not always get to give good news, and this is one of these times.

FERPA disallows schools to disclose educational records without the family's/student's consent. By exporting the school emails, the school is afraid that you may inadvertently violate FERPA, which would have them be held accountable.

But aside from this, the answer is based on a simpler doctrine. If it is a school account, it is their email. It does not belong to you. The employer can set limits on email use and sharing for their employee's email accounts that belong to the employer. When you leave, you lose the account and it belongs to the employer and stays with them.

So the school CAN do this, and state that employees cannot copy emails to an outside server, etc. This is not unusual.

So yes, they can enforce this rule.

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Hello,You did not reply to my last question, but I think I understand. You state that you need those emails for work, to back up for meetings, etc. I get that. However, the employer still has the right to limit this. I am sorry. So unfortunately, my answer stands as is. Thanks again in advance for not shooting the messenger.Gentle Reminder: Please, use REPLY or SEND button to keep chatting, or RATE POSITIVELY and SUBMIT your rating when we are finished. You may always ask follow ups at no charge after rating.